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

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.

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.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.