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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailor so inexorable as one's self!

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitable confines himself within ancient limits.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face the himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 to be obeyed.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne