Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

All of life is a foreign country.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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.