The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

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.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.