Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.