Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”

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

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”

“The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.”

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”