The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Topics: Friends Quotes

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going...

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may...

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which,...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which,...

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the...

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the...

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling...

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling...

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man...

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as...

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as...

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the...

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Easy reading is damned hard writing.

Sunlight is painting.

Sunlight is painting.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their...

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their...

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world

All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...

All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand,...

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand,...