Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

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.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.