He was the most familiar of their words; and indeed we lost much eloquence when making Him the shortest and ugliest of our monosyllables. - T.E. Lawrence

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record, and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are to-day not far from a disaster.

If I could not assume their character, I could at least conceal my own,

My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.