Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

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

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.

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

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

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