You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton