Quotes from GK Chesterton

Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain that we may lose the way.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

But I do see the good side of water now. How good it is when you're really thirsty, how it glitters and gurgles! How alive it is!

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.