More quotes by George Santayana

"love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
"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."
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
"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."