The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.
Gilbert K. Chesterton