Wisdom from Chesterton

• "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice." - A Defense of Humilities, The Defendant, 1901

• "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - Everlasting Man, 1925

• "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." - ILN, 4/19/30

• "Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance." - The Speaker, 12/15/00

• "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908

• "What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism." - Sidelights on New London and Newer New York

• "He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." - Tremendous Trifles, 1909