Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.


Ch. XX : The Flower of Eden - The House of the Seven Gables (1851)


The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.