What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.