While Christianity has established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order is to give room for good things to run wild.
G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

You always have time for things you put first

Things which come before our eyes in everyday experience are little reckoned of, not because they are less remarkable in nature but simply because of their continual occurence.
St. Augustine - City of God Book21, ch4

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guilaume Apollinaire

When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
G.K. Chesterton - Daily News, July 29, 1905

The hardest thing to remember about our own time, of course, is simply that it is a time; we all instinctively think of it as the Day of Judgment. But all the things in it which belong to it merely as this time will probably be rapidly turned upside down; all the things that can pass will pass. It is not merely true that all old things are already dead; it is also true that all new things are already dead; for the only undying things are the things that are neither new nor old. The more you are up with this year's fashion, the more (in a sense) you are already behind next year's.
G.K. Chesterton - Charles Dickens

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.... Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death. [Read more]
Sir Winston Churchill from "Painting as a Pastime"

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. Chesterton - The Well and the Shallows - St. Thomas More