Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
Gilbert K. ChestertonContemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
Gilbert K. Chesterton