Hilaire Belloc

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

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.