G.K. Chesterton

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

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

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

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

- G.K. Chesterton