G.K. Chesterton

"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality."

"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."

"The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

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

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

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

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."