By natures kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a mans power to answer do not occur to him at all. – George Santayana
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. – George Santayana
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. – George Santayana
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. – George Santayana
Ah, if he could have plunged up into the clouds, so as to sweep thereon through the undulating heavens over the boundless earth!—ah, if he could have floated with the flower-fragrance over the flowers,—could have streamed with the wind over the summits, through the woods! – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,