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""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.""

"'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.' The civilisation of antiquity was the whole world: and men no more dreamed of its ending than of the ending of daylight. They could not imagine another order unless it were in another world."

"'Well, I do believe some things, of course,' conceded Father Brown; 'and therefore, of course, I don't believe other things.'"

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it."

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

"A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher."

"A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy."

"A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard."

"A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying."