Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton