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

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

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

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

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

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