Maxioms by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down read more
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.
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; read more
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest
excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he
throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every
human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchased with read more
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by
the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter read more
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the read more
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.