The House of the Seven Gables (Illustrated)

If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame, which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities.

It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide—but so quickly close again!

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.