Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel HawthorneI find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
Nathaniel Hawthorne