It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste. — John Buchan

"Honest intention will not cure faulty practice."

"We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it."

"Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it."

"I mused upon the ironic fate which had compelled a mathematical genius to make his sole confidant of a philistine lawyer, and induced that lawyer to repeat it confusedly to an ignoramus at twilight on a Scotch hill."

"[L]oyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter."

"The secret of life is to find out what one really wants."