Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

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

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

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

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.