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.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

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

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.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

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

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

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

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