I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Doubt never brings anything better; Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!

Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die

I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. '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.