<p>This book is a collection of 152 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne:<br><br>"Easy reading is damn hard writing."<br>"I have not lived, but only dreamed about living."<br>"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of...