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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G. K. Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G. K. Chesterton
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction…For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. G. K. Chesterton
To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. G. K. Chesterton
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. G. K. Chesterton
