“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.” G. K. Chesterton
“Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.” G. K. Chesterton
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful? Holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.” Plutarch
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” G. K. Chesterton
This gives a great field for the flatterer in friendship, who finds a wonderful base of operations in our self-love, which makes each person his own first and greatest flatterer. Plutarch
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.” G. K. Chesterton
