It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana
By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana
Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. – Baroness Emmuska Orczy