My acceptance of the universe is not optimism, it is more like patriotism. it is a matter of primary loyalty. The world is not a lodging-house at Brighton, which we are to leave because it is miserable. It is the fortress of our family, with the flag flying on the turret, and the more miserable it is the less we should leave it.
–G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (p. 59)
