The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Tag: G.K. Chesterton
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.