“Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.”

“The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.”

“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.”

“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”

“There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.”

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

“Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place”