“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850, Ch. IX: The LeechShare
“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
“Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God.”— Khalil GibranShare
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”— ConfuciusShare
“If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.”— Fyodor DostoevskyShare
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”— Charles DickensShare
“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”— John MiltonShare
