John Buchan Quotes
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The law and the constitution are like a child's pants. They've got to be made wider and longer as the child grows so as to fit him. If they're kept too tight, he'll burst them; and if you're in a hurry and make them too big all at once, they'll trip him up.
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Too young for wife, too old for child, but the ripe age for comrade - and such a comrade, for there was a boy's gallantry in her eyes and something of a child's confident fearlessness.
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To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
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What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.
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The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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There was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.
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I am nothing - a will-o'-the-wisp at your service - a clod of vivified dust whom its progenitors christened Amos Midwinter. I have no possession but my name, and no calling but that of philosopher. Naked I came from the earth, and naked I will return to it.
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Oh, I agree he went mad in the end. It is the only explanation. Something must have snapped in that fine brain, and he saw the little bit more which we call madness. Thank God, you and I are prosaic fellows...
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I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense.
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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
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It's the Idea that wins every time - the Idea with brains and guts behind it.