Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.