K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
england pass pay people quite smile spoken
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
bottle crack fish hath man sauce seen stand tea treat
But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his tea Or crack a bottle of fish sauce Or stand a man to cheese? Gilbert K
height style
He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
miracles wonderful
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
cute-love loved man short sweet-love
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
discovered exuberant nonsense round
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
progress settled simply
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
night men race
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
religious philosophy philosophical
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.
block men evil
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries , if the world is evil we must be conservatives . These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere , since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.
atheism masterpiece extraordinary
The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.
golf two scotch
The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
church world grows
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.