All of life is a foreign country.

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

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