Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.
Gilbert K. Chesterton