Hilaire Belloc

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!