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“That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.”
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“Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.”
Source : Elizabeth Haydon (2010). “Requiem for the Sun: A New Adventure in the Symphony of Ages”, p.373, Macmillan
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“We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.”
Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.14.
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“Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.”
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“There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.”
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“The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.”
Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.9, Regnery Publishing
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“I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.”
Source : "Lust for words, and ice-cream too" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007. 
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“The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.”
