Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMost Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
Gilbert K. Chesterton