The Last Lesson of Life

[My father's] den or study was piled high with the stratified layers of about ten or twelve creative amusements; water-colour painting and modelling and photography and stained glass and fretwork and magic langerns and mediaevel illumination. ... He never dreamed of turning any of these plastic talents to any mercentary account, or of using them for anything but his own private pleasure and ours. ... All this time he was known to the world, and even the next-door neighbours, as a very reliable and capatable though rather unambitious business man. It was a very good lession in what is also the last lesson of life; that in everything that matters, the inside is much larger than the outside.

Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton

What a wonderful way to live and one that we seem largely to have forgotten.

Also - the inside is much larger than the outside - did Dr. Who meet G.K. Chesterton and steal this line? Or vice versa?