words of the wise.

-  Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

-  I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

-  Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

-  The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

-  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.

-  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.

 -  "An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

-  "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."

-  "I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."

-  "Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

-  “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.” 

-  “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”

-  “One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.” 

-  “Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--” 

-  “Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”

-G.K. Chesterton