More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."
"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."
"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."