Comrades, he began, as sharp as a pistol-shot, our meeting tonight is important, though it need not be long. This branch has always had the honour of electing Thursdays for the Central European Council. We have elected many and splendid Thursdays. We all lament the sad decease of the heroic worker who occupied the post until last week. As you know, his services to the cause were considerable. He organised the great dynamite coup of Brighton which, under happier circumstances, ought to have killed everybody

A stormy evening of olive and silver was closing in, as Father Brown, wrapped in a grey Scotch plaid, came to the end of a grey Scotch valley and beheld the strange castle of Glengyle. It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a blind alley; and it looked like the end of the world. Rising in steep roofs and spires of seagreen slate in the manner of the old French-Scotch chateaux, it reminded an Englishman of the sinister steeple-hats of witches in fairy tales; and the pine woods that rocked round the gr

For the White Horse knew England When there was none to know; He saw the first oar break or bend, He saw heaven fall and the world end, O God, how long ago.

The principle is this: that in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the sea-bather comes after the icy shock of the sea bath; and the success of the marriage comes after the failure of the honeymoon. All human vows, laws, and contracts are so many ways of surviving w

Sapkınlar (Heretikler), Chesterton'un üstün olduğu bir başka edebiyat alanına aittir. Eğlenceyi seven ve girişken bir adam olmasına rağmen, ergenlik döneminde intihar düşünceleri de olan Chesterton, Hıristiyanlık'ta hayatta gördüğü ikilemlere ve paradokslara cevaplar aramıştır. Ortodoksluk da bu alana ait çalışmalanndan biridir... Büyük zihinsel yıkım devam edecek. Her şey reddedilecek. Her şey bir inanç olacak. Sokaktaki taşlan inkâr etmek makul bir konudur; onları ileri sürmek dini bir dogma olacaktır.