Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

"The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right."

"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."