Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ”

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. ”

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. ”

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ”

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ”

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. ”

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. ”

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ”

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. ”

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ”