If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.

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

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

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

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

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

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.