I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep! A greeting and a homage to the Sea! I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that meets me, and bathe my brow. That far-resounding roar is the Ocean’s voice of welcome. His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.
Nathaniel HawthorneReligion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel HawthorneWhat other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel HawthorneThe fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.
Nathaniel Hawthorne