And, indeed, in this matter, we come in collision with the real objection to this false cult of simplicity. It is not truly childlike, for of all the admirable traits of children, the first and the most striking is an extravagant love of pomp.

-April 4, 1903, Black and White
[found in the book Chesterton in Black and White (2021), edited by Geir Hasnes]