Gilbert Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.