John Buchan Quotes
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I gathered from Hollond that he was always conscious of corridors and halls and alleys in Space, shifting, but shifting according to inexorable laws. I never could get quite clear as to what this consciousness was like. When I asked he used to look puzzled and worried and helpless.
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Without humility there can be no humanity.
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The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.
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It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.
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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
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What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains.
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Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
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If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style.
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
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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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Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God-she has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. She is the channel of the eternal purpose of Heaven.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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It's the Idea that wins every time - the Idea with brains and guts behind it.