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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Gratitude Test
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Darkness Fact Simple
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Doubt Men
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Modern Silence Tyranny
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Bath Believe Practice
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Order Running
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christianity Morality Religion
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Grateful Gratitude Life Live
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Animal Sacrifice Worship
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Matter Want Writing
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Government Necessity Ugly
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Impose Philosophy Telephone