Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere force of his personality. He was the most impressive living thing we saw in Egypt, not excepting two Pashas and a Bey. He was engaged with large philosophies, one could see that.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!