The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

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.

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

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.