It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
George SantayanaThe need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
George SantayanaIt is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
George SantayanaThe family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.
George Santayana