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.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.