G. K. Chesterton

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

A foreigner is a man who laughs at everything except jokes. He is perfectly entitled to laugh at anything, so long as he realises, in a reverent and religious spirit, that he himself is laughable.

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

Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to found our social philosophy on any theory which is debatable but has not been debated.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.