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.
Happiness, Patience & Endurance, ButterfliesNathaniel HawthorneWords - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Words, Poesie, WritingNathaniel HawthorneAll brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Love, CourageNathaniel HawthorneOur Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Enjoying, Creation, ImmortalityNathaniel HawthorneThere is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.
OctoberNathaniel HawthorneI cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Autumn & FallNathaniel HawthorneWe must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
EnjoyingNathaniel HawthorneOur most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
FriendshipNathaniel Hawthorne