I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonCircumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.
Gilbert K. Chesterton