And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
New roads; new ruts.
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
