Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. – George Santayana