A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing c... - G.K. Chesterton

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

"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate."

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

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

"Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."