Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.
Nathaniel HawthorneMan is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as her acknowledged principal!
Nathaniel HawthorneOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne