G. K. Chesterton

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next-door neighbour.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting swimming fencing boxing walking playing dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.