More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themsel…
  2. The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to…
  3. What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
  4. In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity…
  5. A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
  6. There runs a strange law through the length of human history - that men are continually tending to undervalue their environment, to underva…
  7. It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
  8. The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, …

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