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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

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.

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