The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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