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  ...taking my likeness, I said that such changes would come over my face that she would not know me when we met again in heaven. "See if I do not!" said she, smiling. There was the most peculiar and beautiful humor in the point itself, and in her manner, that can be imagined.
Little F. H------ used to look into E----'s mouth to see where her smiles came from.
"There is no Measure for Measure to my affections. If the earth fails me, I can die, and go to GOD," said ------.
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.   This might be thought out at great length.
Boston, July 3d, 1839.--I do not mean to imply that I am unhappy or discontented, for this is not the case. My life only is a burden in the same way that it is to every toilsome man; and mine is a healthy weariness, such as needs only a night's sleep to remove it. But from henceforth forever I shall be entitled to call the sons of toil my brethren, and shall know how to sympathize with them, seeing that I likewise have risen at the dawn,...   Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Excerpt from Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 · This quote is tagged Selfishness · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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