George Santayana

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."

"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

"The earth has music for those who listen."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."