The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – 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

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – 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
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions. – George Santayana
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,