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

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

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 only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.