Home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
To an open house in the evening, Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden, And a taller town than Rome.
The ultimate effect of the great science of Fingerprints is this: that whereas a gentleman was expected to put on gloves to dance with a lady, he may now be expected to put on gloves in order to strangle her.
There is nothing particularly nasty about being a relic of barbarism. Dancing is a relic of barbarism. Man is a relic of barbarism. Civilization is a relic of barbarism. But torture is not a relic of barbarism at all. In actuality it is simply a relic of sin.
Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
What the denouncer of dogma really means is not that dogma is bad; but rather that dogma is too good to be true.
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don’t know it.
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn’t.
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.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
