Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.