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G K Chesterton: The poetry of...

G K Chesterton: The poetry of...

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love...

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G K Chesterton: We make our...

G K Chesterton: We make our...

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

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G K Chesterton: You cannot love...

G K Chesterton: You cannot love...

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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G K Chesterton: There is a...

G K Chesterton: There is a...

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to...

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G K Chesterton: Being contented ought...

G K Chesterton: Being contented ought...

Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not...

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G K Chesterton: Buddhism is not...

G K Chesterton: Buddhism is not...

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Source: Professor de Worms, in The Man Who...

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G K Chesterton: The poor have...

G K Chesterton: The poor have...

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at...

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G K Chesterton: Education is simply...

G K Chesterton: Education is simply...

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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G K Chesterton: He could not...

G K Chesterton: He could not...

He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.

Source: Speaking of...

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G K Chesterton: The chief assertion...

G K Chesterton: The chief assertion...

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the...

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G K Chesterton: The timidity of...

G K Chesterton: The timidity of...

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is...

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G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken...

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G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.

Source:...

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E B White: Everything in life...

E B White: Everything in life...

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Source: 'One...

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Frederick Douglass: Truth is proper...

Frederick Douglass: Truth is proper...

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

Source: In Famous...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Some facts should...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Some facts should...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating...

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George Moore: Remorse is beholding...

George Moore: Remorse is beholding...

Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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G K Chesterton: The word good...

G K Chesterton: The word good...

The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards,...

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