What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. – G.K. Chesterton
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own? – G.K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. – G.K. Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton
This is not simply a story about a frog and a prince. A story about a frog would be biological. A story about a prince would be historical. But a story about a frog-prince is magical, and therein lies all the difference. – Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Child