Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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. ChestertonFor fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSoldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton