Hilaire Belloc

“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”

“An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.”

“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

“Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.”

“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.”