I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
From Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
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