Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton