Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not…

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my…

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas…

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that…

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated…

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine…

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously…

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may…

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should…

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is…

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not…

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles…

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching…

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment…

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man…