Whoa, go back three steps–actually one day. Yesterday was the birthday of G.K. Chesterton, and I can’t miss that one. He has so many great quotes. And Father Brown and The Man Who Was Thursday and Orthodoxy are such great books.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. To me, this means do it and enjoy it no matter what your level of competency. You don’t have to be a great singer to sing, and you don’t have to be a great writer to blog.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. Often quoted, but still true.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. Chesterton on homeschooling?

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. I get very impatient with children who are bored or who say they are bored.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. I wish I could develop true contentment, but I greatly fear that I am unwilling to put in the work required to get there.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. Wow, talk about praying without ceasing. This habit, too, would be good to develop.