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.

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

I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.