I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton