Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.