Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wise Words

"The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely in their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day."

--Describing the Daguerreotypist, at age 22,
in "The House of the Seven Gables"--