At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.