The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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.
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
