Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. – George Santayana
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana
The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. – George Santayana