More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."
"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"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."
"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."