G. K. Chesterton

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Of all modern notions the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home they say is dead decorum and routine outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction just as each man is alone in a dream.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

New roads new ruts.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.