Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do it...

Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.