“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850, Introduction: The Custom-HouseShare
“It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!”— Nathaniel HawthorneShare
“Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.”— Nathaniel HawthorneShare
“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”— Henry David ThoreauShare
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be.”— Thomas JeffersonShare
“Jealousy. The person who hasn't felt it cannot know how much it hurts, or imagine the madness committed in its name.”— Isabel AllendeShare
“You know how a play in dialect is. At the first act, you think, "How quaint!"; at the second act, you wish they would either stop using dialect or keep quiet; and at the third…”— Dorothy ParkerShare
“Where we find a difficulty we may always expect that a discovery awaits us. Where there is cover we hope for game.”— C.S. LewisShare
“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”— John MiltonShare
