Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.
Hilaire BellocAn institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire BellocStatistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire BellocBe content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
Hilaire Belloc