A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

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

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana