More quotes by Hilaire Belloc

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