Gilbert K. Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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.