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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

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

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

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