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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The sages have a hundred maps to give. That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree. They rattle reason out through many a sieve. That stores the sand but lets the gold go free. And all these things are less than dust to me. Because my name is Lazarus and I live.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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