George Santayana

"The Bible is literature, not dogma."

"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."

"In proportion as a mans interests become humane and his efforts rational, he appropriates and expands a common life, which reappears in all individuals who reach the same impersonal level of ideas."

"To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic."

"... I once shook hands with Longfellow at a garden party in 1881; and I often saw Dr. Holmes, who was our neighbor in Beacon Street: but Emerson I never saw."

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."