"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on age and aging
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on democracy
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"With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on convalescence   

"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on cosmos   

"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on education
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"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on emotions   

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience   

"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on fame