4 July: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Born 4 July 1804 was Nathaniel Hawthorne, US writer whose works include The Scarlet Letter.

1. Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
2. We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream : it may be so at the moment after death.
3. Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
4. The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
5. To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
6. A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
7. A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
8. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
9. Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
10. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

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