The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

It is difficult to keep quiet when everything is being done wrong, but the less you lose your temper the greater your advantage. Also then you will not go mad yourself.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.