Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – 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
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. – George Santayana
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana
Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul. – Attributed to Edward Plantagenet
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers