“It is the peasants who preserve all traditions of the sites of battles or the building of churches. It is they who remember, so far as anyone remembers, the glimpses of fairies or the graver wonders of saints. In the classes above them the supernatural has been slain by the supercilious. That is a true and tremendous text in Scripture which says that ‘where there is no vision the people perish.’ But it is equally true in practice that where there is no people the visions perish.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News, July 30, 1910, quoted in “GKC on Scripture – Conducted by Peter Floriani” “Proverbs Part 2” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the G.K. Chesterton Society Vol. 25 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2022)

“Outspirational.”

Me on something that absolutely failed to engage my enthusiasm February 2000.

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

C.S. Lewis, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser September 4, 2022.

“Lord Salisbury’s observation that ‘no lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust in experts’”

Michael Mandelbaum in New York Times June 16, 1985 [and widely quoted online but not, in any examples I found, with further attribution as to when or where Salisbury said it].

“As Chesterton put it ‘Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good.’ Ivan [Karamazov] may seem as though he is tired of evil, but through his disdain for evil, he rejects not what is evil, but what is good.”

Fred Berg in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)

“Live your life so folks won’t have to lie at your funeral”

A sign at “First Baptist Church American Baptist Association” [no other information visible] posted on Instagram by c_mccourt 221002

“Chesterton says in The Everlasting Man that murder and hatred of children are always associated with witchcraft, which comes from demons.”

Fred Berg in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)

“Sir, it seems that you are no better a judge of human beings than you are a specimen of one.”

Buster Scruggs responding to an insult from a low-life bandit in the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [https://youtu.be/g_XLQDeYqpE?t=49]