Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. – George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. – George Santayana
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell