The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

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

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

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.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.