Hilaire Belloc (1870 – 1953) was an Anglo-French writer, poet, and, satirist. He was a strong Catholic faith, and close collaborator with G. K. Chesterton.
The Four Men: A Farrago "contains some very deep reflections about life, about beauty, about friendship, about love, about lasting things, about the fleetingness of human life, and our hankering after the divine."