It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIs ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWith every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
Gilbert K. Chesterton