Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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

  • A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  • Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

  • The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.