One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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

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.

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

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

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