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

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.

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.

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

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

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.

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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