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.

I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving Swiftly.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

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.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

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.