People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDo not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAn enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.
Gilbert K. Chesterton