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

"The earth has music for those who listen."

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

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

"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."