It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

HILAIRE BELLOC, On Everything

From the towns all Inns have been driven: from the villages most.... Change your hearts or you will lose your Inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your Inns drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

HILAIRE BELLOC, This and That