Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
Gilbert K. ChestertonJust at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.
Gilbert K. Chesterton