Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.
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. ChestertonWhen the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
Gilbert K. Chesterton