Quote of the Day (Nathaniel Hawthorne, on Our ‘Odd and Incomprehensible World’)

“This is such an odd and incomprehensible world! The more I look at it, the more it puzzles me, and I begin to suspect that a man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”—American novelist and short-story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The House of the Seven Gables (1851)