No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

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

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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.