I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

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

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

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

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

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.