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