John Buchan Quotes

"The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things."
- John Buchan
(Related: God, Years)

"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."
- John Buchan
(Related: Education, Time)

"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
- John Buchan
(Related: Debt, Future, Past)

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
- John Buchan
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Joy, May)

"Without humility there can be no humanity."
- John Buchan
(Related: Humanity, Humility)

"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
- John Buchan
(Related: Men)

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
- John Buchan
(Related: Leadership, Greatness, Humanity)

"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
- John Buchan
(Related: Hope, Charm, Fishing, Pursuit)

"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
- John Buchan
(Related: Words)

"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
- John Buchan
(Related: God, Soul, Heart, Prayer)

"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."
- John Buchan
(Related: Emotion)

"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."
- John Buchan
(Related: Life, Civilization, Folk)

"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."
- John Buchan
(Related: Civilization, Earth)

"Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown."
- John Buchan
(Related: Peace, Fear, State)