Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.