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 Newyears
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Education
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 Men
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Great
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. -Gilbert K. Chesterton History
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 Alone
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 Power
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Truth
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Art
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Truth
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Art
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Courage
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? -Gilbert K. Chesterton Christmas
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 Travel
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 Courage
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Education
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. -Gilbert K. Chesterton Government
