Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. - G. K. Chesterton

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

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