All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYour next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSavages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
Gilbert K. ChestertonComforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton