Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about happiness, contentment
Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
11 quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne - american novelist and short story writer
Was born on 04 jul 1804.
Died on 19 may 1864, at 59 years old.
Died on 19 may 1864, at 59 years old.
Origin country: United States
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about woman
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about opinion, art, magic, spring, religion
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about opinion, stores
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.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about word, good, good luck
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about egoism, love
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
NQuote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about god, immortality, day, thinking
