Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them. Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne More Quotes From Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne accuracydishonestyhonestybrother