The “first essential answer” to that question, he wrote in his autobiography, is “‘To get rid of my sins.’ For there is no other religious system that does really profess to get rid of people’s sins.” Chesterton’s response might sound glib to some,...

Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette “It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton “A man’s first care...

Pickwick who make journeys across England to remote places and then report their findings to other club members. Pickwick is joined by Tracy Tupman a renowned ladies' man, the wonderfully named Augustus Snodgrass who is a failed poet and Nathaniel...

Dickens’s work has been highly praised for its realism, comedy, mastery of prose, unique personalities and concern for social reform by writers such as Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton; though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf,...

“The Secret People” (the historic refrain of which is “Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet”), Chesterton summarizes the woes and dispossessions of his fellow-countrymen in...

Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette “It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton “A man’s first care...