Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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.

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

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