Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.”

“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.”

“A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

“The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”

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

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

“In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.”

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”

“New roads; new ruts.”

“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.”

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

“If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.”

“A yawn is a silent shout.”

“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”