The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton