Hadas Cassorla

“Michael Oakeshott: “The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.”
― Christopher J. Scalia, 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love

“Every one who has had the misfortune to talk with people in the heart or on the edge of mental disorder, knows that their most sinister quality is a horrible clarity of detail; a connecting of one thing with another in a map more elaborate than a maze.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

“For nothing,” said she, “is more common than to call our own condition the condition of life.”
― Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

“Youth is delighted with applause, because it is considered as the earnest of some future good, and because the prospect of life is far extended; but to me, who am now declining to decrepitude, there is little to be feared from the malevolence of men, and yet less to be hoped from their affection or esteem.”
― Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia