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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apology Integrity Men
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Accepting Doctrine Miracle
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Church Need Thinking
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Impose Philosophy Telephone
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Country Government People
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Food Important Science
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doctrine Sin Year
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
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Common Faith Inspiration Sense
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
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

Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Book Hero Read
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles