Chesterton's essays on the leading ideas of his day. He wrote them as the argument that carried him on to Orthodoxy.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, an…
When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward 'in a word, a man. And upon this rock He…
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, an…
When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward 'in a word, a man. And upon this rock He…
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.