Nathaniel Hawthorne
“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.”
“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”
“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”