G. K. Chesterton wrote that “thanks are the highest form of thought, and … gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder,” and made a habit of saying grace not just before meals, but “before the play and the opera, and grace before the concert and the pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
