“ 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. Gilbert K. Chesterton
“ 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. Gilbert K. Chesterton
