Stuff from the Treasury of G K Chesterton

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

- G K Chesterton