Gilbert K. Chesterton Finals Quotations

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.