I know that journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. - G. K. Chesterton

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.