There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
Gilbert K. Chesterton