More quotes by Hilaire Belloc

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