Sublime

The second is to remember that very plain literal fact always seems fantastic.

G. K. Chesterton once said of Charles Dickens, “Dickens didn’t write what people wanted. Dickens wanted what people wanted.”

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite as much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

that depth of mindlessness which calls itself the modern mind.

The best we deserve or can expect is a Fool who shall be free; and who shall deliver us with laughter.

The majority of men are poets, only they happen to be bad poets.

In a primary sense puns are a perfect type of literary art.

mysticism was with him, as with all its genuine professors, only a transcendent form of common sense.

Mental lucidity fulfils itself in many ways.