It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.
Gilbert K. Chesterton