Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

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.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.