“Life is made up of marble and mud.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1851, Ch. II: The Little Shop-WindowShare
“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
