Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.