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• Words -- 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.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• Life is made up of marble and mud. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
  The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence....
• From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• 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.
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne...
• Who needs TV... have modem.
• You, who claim that you long to rise above the crude concerns of the body, above the drudgery of serving mere physical needs -- who is enslaved by physical need
  he Hindu who labors from sunrise to sunset at the shafts of a handplow for a bowl of rice, or the American who is driving a tractor?...