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

"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."

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

"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."