Temper and Truth

There is a thing called temper. It does colour one’s common life; the sky and landscape alter it; also it alters the sky and landscape. But temper is not the key of the universe; temper is not truth. A good-tempered man is not a saint; nor is a bad-tempered man necessarily a sinner. We all see truth as a light through very various windows; the question is, which of us wish to pull down the blinds?

G. K. Chesterton – Illustrated London News, Dec. 17, 1910