No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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

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

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

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

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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