G.K. Chesterton

"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."

"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

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

"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."

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

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