Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIslam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton