Quotes from book
A Lodge in the Wilderness

Name: A Lodge in the Wilderness
Author: John Buchan

John Buchan

A Lodge in the Wilderness is a 1906 political quasi-novel by the Scottish author John Buchan.

“The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 22

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

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 23

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

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. II, p. 43

“In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. III, p. 69

“It was a very young man's confession of faith, and yet there was the glimmering of a truth at the back of it. It was my instinctive protest against the undue simplification of life. We are all a strange compound, and we shall never reach our full stature by starving certain parts of our nature of their due.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. X, p. 272

“It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. X, p. 268

“What do we mean by spiritual development? Surely, the broadening and deepening of the mind till it regards the world in its true perspective, and the strengthening of the character so that the will is a tempered and unerring weapon in the charge of a man's soul. And this end is to be achieved only by the exercise of the mind upon the largest possible manifold of experience, and by the conflict of character with the alien forces of the world.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XII, pp. 336–7

“It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.”

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Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. III, p. 83

“Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XI, pp. 313–4

“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.

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