George Santayana

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. ”

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. ”

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ”

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

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ”

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. ”

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ”

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ”

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. ”