Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.

The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.

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