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Literature · Reflection

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ~ ON HAPPINESS

7 November 2011

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 it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne



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