Lost Horizon

by James Hilton

We rule with moderate strictness, and in return we are satisfied with moderate obedience. And I think I can claim that our people are moderately sober, moderately chaste, and moderately honest.”

I can only add that our community has various faiths and usages, but we are most of us moderately heretical about them.

And, most precious of all, you will have Time—that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

“Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue,