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

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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is made up of marble and mud.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing fails like success.

—Gerald Nachman

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.

—David Smith

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

—Ronald Reagan

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

—William Goldman

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

—Douglas Adams