It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are... - G.K. Chesterton

"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head."

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

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"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."

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."