It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAtheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton