To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers,... - 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."

"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."

"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."