When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDaybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONComradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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