Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Death
As a dark Shadow
Beckons his prey
Into the unknown
By a soft whisper
In the soul
CINDY CHENEY, “Death”

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.

– NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Dr. Johnson’s morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

What we call real estate the solid ground to build a house on is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

…I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh as that was! My very heart leaped with delight at the sound.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne