Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel HawthorneHappiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel HawthorneWhen an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne