Hilaire Belloc

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

"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

"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."

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