Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense