The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form. George Santayana
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. See image George Santayana
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. See image George Santayana
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. See image George Santayana