Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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.”

“We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us.”

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

“Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained.”

“A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself , may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.”