To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.