Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
Gilbert K. Chesterton