The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.