Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.
Hilaire BellocFrom quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire BellocOh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
Hilaire BellocThe whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
Hilaire BellocBut if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.
Hilaire Belloc