When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
G.K. ChestertonThere was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by the end of it."
"What do you mean?" cried the chaotic Gregory. "What did I promise you?"
"A very entertaining evening," said Syme, and he made a military salute with his sword-stick as the steamboart slid away.
He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter.
G.K. ChestertonThe gentlemen are up there, sare," he said. "They do talk and they do laugh at what they talk. They do say they will throw bombs at ze king.
G.K. ChestertonMysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
G.K. ChestertonIt is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
G.K. ChestertonGratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. ChestertonPessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other the good things in a society no longer work that the society
begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless. We might almost say that in a society without such good things we should hardly have any test by which to register a decline; that is why some of the static commercial oligarchies like Carthage have rather an air in history of standing and staring like mummies, so dried up and swathed and embalmed that no man knows when they are new or old.
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
G.K. ChestertonWhere does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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