Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.