Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

• 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.

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

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

• 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.

• 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.