A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

—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

Moonlight is sculpture.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sunlight is painting.

—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

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

—Henry Ward Beecher

If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.

—Gail Honeyman in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

God is hiding in the world and our task is to let the divine emerge from our deeds.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

I'm not trying to hide my past. I've learned a lot from it. It's made me who I am today, and I'm proud of who I've become.

—Amber Lynn Natusch in Undertow

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

—Raymond Chandler