What is the modern mind?" asked Grant.
"Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At this moment another roar of laughter came from within.
Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men...
G.K. ChestertonThere are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
G.K. ChestertonArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G.K. ChestertonIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G.K. ChestertonWith every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
G.K. ChestertonWhen you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
G.K. ChestertonFairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. a
G.K. ChestertonIn the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
G.K. ChestertonDrink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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