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

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

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

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.