When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.