A new morality has burst upon us with some violence in connection with the problem of strong drink; and enthusiasts in the matter range from the man who is violently thrown out at 12.30, to the lady who smashes American bars with an axe. In these discussions it is almost always felt that one very wise and moderate position is to say that wine or such stuff should only be drunk as a medicine. With this I should venture to disagree with a peculiar ferocity. The one genuinely dangerous and immoral way of drinking wine is to drink it as a medicine. And for this reason: If a man drinks wine in order to obtain pleasure, he is trying to obtain something exceptional; something he does not expect every hour of the day; something which, unless he is a little insane, he will not try to get every hour of the day. But if a man drinks wine in order to obtain health, he is trying to get something natural; something, that is, that he ought not to be without; something that he may find it difficult to reconcile himself to being without. The man may not be seduced who has seen the ecstasy of being ecstatic; it is more dazzling to catch a glimpse of the ecstasy of being ordinary.
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CHESTERTON A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. G. K. CHESTERTON The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. G. K. CHESTERTON I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that f... G. K. CHESTERTON The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. G. K. CHESTERTON Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really ... G. K. CHESTERTON There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man ... G. K. CHESTERTON The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K. CHESTERTON But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross i... G. K. CHESTERTON Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G. K. CHESTERTON All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G. K. CHESTERTON Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can... G. K CHESTERTON Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G K CHESTERTON We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. G. K. CHESTERTON The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul G. K. CHESTERTON A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he h... G. K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G. K. CHESTERTON The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. G. K. CHESTERTON You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. G. K. CHESTERTON Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and t... G. K. CHESTERTON The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see. G. 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 ow... G. K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G. K. CHESTERTON Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. G. K. CHESTERTON Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer b... G. K. CHESTERTON Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones ... G. K. CHESTERTON It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might... G. K. CHESTERTON If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. G. K. CHESTERTON I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. G. K. CHESTERTON I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. G. K. CHESTERTON Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. G. K. CHESTERTON Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to r... G. K. CHESTERTON Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. G. K. CHESTERTON By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may ... G. K. CHESTERTON Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. G. K. CHESTERTON Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G. K. CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly c... G. K. CHESTERTON "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate... G. K. CHESTERTON Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate... G. K. CHESTERTON Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. G. K. CHESTERTON Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized. G. K. CHESTERTON Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy ... G. K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G. K. CHESTERTON There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uni... G. K. CHESTERTON There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points,... G. K. CHESTERTON To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G. K. CHESTERTON