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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

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

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

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.

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