G. K. Chesterton Quote

The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.


A Miscellany of Men (1912)


The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on ...

The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on ...

The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on ...

The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on ...