Quotes By Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

“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.”

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”

“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.”