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.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

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

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.