Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes and Sayings


Nathaniel Hawthorne US author (1804 - 1864)

Life is made up of marble and mud. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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