G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered Quotes

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.