He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four. HERETICS

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British journalist, a distributivist and eventually a Catholic. Best known perhaps for his Father Brown mysteries, he also wrote novels, poetry, biography, literary criticism, social commentary and apologetics.

Local Resources

• Chesterton Quotes: "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."
• Links to his works
• A few pages about Distributivism, Chesterton's political philosophy

Off-site Links

• Gilbert Magazine
• The American Chesterton Society proffers a Chesterton T-shirt and quotes by topic.
• Martin Ward's G. K. Chesterton Page includes a biography and all of Chesterton's on-line works.
• David W. Fagerberg's article, The Essential Chesterton, in the March 2000 issue of First Things.
• Dave Armstrong's G. K. Chesterton: The Colossal Genius features bibliographies, articles, book reviews and much more.