The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
