If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.
Gilbert K. Chesterton