HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL : 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.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL : 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.
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL : Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.