When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire BellocIs there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire BellocLet us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.
Hilaire Belloc