If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
It is better to run back than run the wrong way.
It is better to finish something than begin.
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
Better a living dog than a dead lion.
An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
He has hard work who has nothing to do.
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.
Tell the truth and then run.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. Chesterton
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. Chesterton
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. Chesterton
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. Chesterton
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. Chesterton