Quotes from G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.