When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Hilaire BellocI forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.
Hilaire BellocNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Hilaire BellocConsider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed?
Hilaire Belloc