I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...
Gilbert K. ChestertonExperience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMan must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton