Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMen may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTo desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton