Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – G.K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. – G.K. Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G.K. Chesterton
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau