“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
More from Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit,…”
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
“She was like a ghost that haunts a familiar fireside, unable to make itself seen or felt,…”
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”