Nathaniel Hawthorne
American novelist and short-story writer, 1804-1864
7 quotes.
Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
- Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
- Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
- The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest of all.
- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.
- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.