They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMaking the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.
Gilbert K. ChestertonChristendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLike every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.
Gilbert K. Chesterton