The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Name: Nathaniel Hawthorne Type: Novelist Nationality: American Birth: July 4, 1804 Death: May 19, 1864 |