G.K. Chesterton

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

None of the strong men in the strong ages would have understood what you meant by working for efficiency.

When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about efficiency.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.