Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.
George SantayanaLanguage is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George SantayanaThere is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.
George Santayana