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

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

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.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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