To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton