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.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

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

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

I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.