France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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