We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMaking the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton