One's friends are that part of the human race with which one... - George Santayana

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

"The earth has music for those who listen."

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

"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."

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