We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
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?
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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