Gilbert K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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

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

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.