To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.
George SantayanaThere is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George SantayanaTo be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana