Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
George SantayanaThe profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
George SantayanaThere is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
George Santayana