Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.