The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTime and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
Gilbert K. ChestertonUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThey hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
Gilbert K. Chesterton