Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant n — G. K. Chesterton

"Strong gongs groaning as the drums beat far."

"All government is an ugly necessity."

"[Dickens] was the character whom anybody can hurt and nobody can kill."

"The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall."

"It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms."

"The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder."