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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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

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

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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

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

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.