SANTAYANA

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.

Miracles are so called because they excite wonder. In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Science is nothing but developed perception, integrated intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.