The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.