Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
Gilbert K. ChestertonChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDo not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton