• Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne: Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.367, Applewood Books