All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

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.

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.