John Buchan Life Quotations

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.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.