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
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. – George Santayana
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 effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana