The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
Nathaniel HawthorneIf the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Nathaniel HawthorneA writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!
Nathaniel Hawthorne