"The Hawthornes owed the very roof over their head to Emerson and their preplanted garden to Henry David Thoreau. They were not ideal tenants. They acted more like Transcendental hippies. They were late with their rent and scratched several windows of the house with memorable but defacing inscriptions like "Man's accidents are God's purposes." Nonetheless the local Transcendentalist coterie welcomed the Hawthornes back again in the 1850s to the house that proved Nathaniel's final residence, "the Wayside."
-From The American Transcendentalists, Essential Writings
