"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I… — John Buchan Copy Share
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet… — John Buchan Copy Share
“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” — John Buchan Copy Share
“How will you deal with him?" Belses asked. Jock lifted a brawny fist and regarded it lovingly. "Knock him out-- truss him up-- whatever… — John Buchan Copy Share
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. — John Buchan Copy Share
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge,… — John Buchan Copy Share
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous. — John Buchan Copy Share
“But let none, he added, pray to have the full music; for it will make him who hears it a footsore traveller in” — John Buchan Copy Share
“though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid. I” — John Buchan Copy Share
I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to… — John Buchan Copy Share
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in… — John Buchan Copy Share
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. — John Buchan Copy Share
“Most people are a little scared at new things ... You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look… — John Buchan Copy Share
