Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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