It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYou could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnd my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton