George Santayana

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.