Category Archives: Chesterton

…it is a better exercise still to remember how all things have had this hair-breadth escape. Everything has been saved from a wreck. GKC

Materialists and madmen never have doubts. GKC

A small circle is as infinite as a large circle. GKC

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost all except his reason. GKC

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. GKC

…Oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. GKC

The ancient masters of religion…began with the fact of sin…a fact as practical as potatoes. GKC

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. GKC

What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane security of coming home again? GKC

Mr. B is not only an ‘early Christian;’ he is the only early Christian who ought really to have been eaten by lions. GKC