Gilbert K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ”

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ”

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ”

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. ”

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. ”

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. ”

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ”

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. ”

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ”

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. ”