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

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

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

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

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

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.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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

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

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