I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSurely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton