Gilbert K. Chesterton

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ”

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. ”

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ”

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. ”

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. ”

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. ”

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. ”

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. ”

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. ”

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. ”