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

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.

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

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

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.

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.

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