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

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

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.

I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving