If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
Gilbert K. Chesterton