G.K. Chesterton

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense of trusting a trend in human nature which cannot turn back to bad things.

The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.

Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility — in other people.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.