Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. - George Santayana

He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. (on Hegel)

Because the peculiarity of man is that his machinery for reaction on external things has involved an imaginative transcript of these things, which is preserved and suspended in his fancy; and the interest and beauty of this inward landscape, rather than any fortunes that may await his body in the outer world, constitute his proper happiness. By their mind, its scope, quality, and temper, we estimate men, for by the mind only do we exist as men, and are more than so many storage-batteries for material energy. Let us therefore be frankly human. Let us be content to live in the mind.

Religions are not true or false, but better or worse.