If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLove is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
Gilbert K. Chesterton