The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFor children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.
Gilbert K. Chesterton