To Charles P. Davis
Hotel Bristol
Rome. December 11, 1937
My approaching birthday (74th.) finds me still at it, but my present book will be the last of my “System,” and anything more, if it should come, would be a work of supererogation. I find old age far more agreeable in itself than youth or manhood; and I make it as little disagreeable as possible to others, by not intruding. They also do not intrude so tutti contenti.
A happy New Year from G.S.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Six, 1937-1940. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY.