One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.
Nathaniel HawthorneHow is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
Nathaniel HawthorneMost people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.
Nathaniel HawthorneThere is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne