Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it is really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of man, they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now they talk about the survival of the fittest: they think they do understand it, whereas they have not merely no notion, they have an elaborately false notion of what the words mean.
Gilbert K. Chesterton