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

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

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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

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.