The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 1 Share Now -
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 2 Share Now -
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 3 Share Now -
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 5 Share Now -
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 6 Share Now -
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 7 Share Now -
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. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 8 Share Now -
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 9 Share Now -
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 10 Share Now -
