All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
Gilbert K. ChestertonCruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLeaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton