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 existed; it was defined before it existed.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for all the wrong reasons.
And Noah, he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, ‘I don’t care where the water goes if it doesn’t get into the wine’.
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness or so good as drink.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like.
