Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the next voyage of the Mayflower, after she carried the Pilgrims, she was employed in transporting a cargo of slaves from Africa.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is painting.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is made up of marble and mud.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne