Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living."

"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."

"Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril. But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Cham…"

"Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting."

"The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life,…"

"Can the philosopher, big with the inspiration of an idea that is to reform mankind, believe that he is to be beckoned from this sensible existence at the very instant when he is mustering his breath t…"

"Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death…"

"Life is made up of marble and mud."