G.K. Chesterton

A man cannot deserve adventures

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock

Thrift is poetic because it is creative

It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos

We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump

If one is talking about a vile thing it is better to talk of it in coarse language