While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.
Gilbert K. ChestertonReal development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.
Gilbert K. Chesterton