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

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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

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

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

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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