The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
Nathaniel HawthorneNobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
Nathaniel HawthorneI cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
Nathaniel HawthorneGenius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne