It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again! (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

It is perilous to make a chasm in human affections; not that they gape so long and wide-but so quickly close again!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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