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

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

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.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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

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

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.