When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his… — Quoted

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

Hilaire Belloc · Hope

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Hilaire Belloc

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Travel

Hilaire Belloc

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.

Friendship

Hilaire Belloc

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

Loneliness

Hilaire Belloc

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

Death