Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
