Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
Gilbert K. Chesterton[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton