It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

Quote by George Santayana

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear...

Habit is stronger than reason

Habit is stronger than reason

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is...

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being...

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being...

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one...

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one...

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a...

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a...

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude...

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain...

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain...

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides...

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover...

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life...

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.