Quotes from Hillaire Belloc

When they married and gave in marriage They danced at the County Ball And some of them kept a carriage And the flood destroyed them all.

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

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind