When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBy a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
Gilbert K. Chesterton