G. K. Chesterton

“Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.”

“Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.”

“The true object of all human life is play.”

“No man can be merry unless he is serious.”

“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 way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”

“Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, Faith means believing the unbelievable, And hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.”

“A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.”

“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”

“Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.”

“Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.”

“The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.”

“It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.”

“New roads; new ruts.”

“When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”

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

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”

“Silence is the unbearable repartee.”

“To be simple is the best thing in the world.”