No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.
Nathaniel HawthorneWe men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Nathaniel HawthorneI wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
Nathaniel HawthorneEvery individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne