When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
Gilbert K. Chesterton