But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
Gilbert K. ChestertonPride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMost Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
Gilbert K. Chesterton