Maxioms by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not read more
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that read more
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the read more
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take read more
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.