Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator. – George Santayana