Quote #3
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
More from John Buchan
- To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
- There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
- The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
- We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
- Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the mos…
- Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the y…
- I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that …