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
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – 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