White.. Is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black.. God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
organization organizations
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
necessity literature luxury
absence
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
reputation virtues
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
adventure
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes.
vices virtues
He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes.
inspiration
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
miracles
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
manners
What though they come with scroll and pen, And grave as a shaven clerk, By this sign you shall know them, That they ruin and make dark.
ruins
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
wrongs
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.
wrongs retribution
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