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

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.

As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.

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

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars