The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Original Citation
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 20.
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Current Citation
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 20.
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