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

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

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

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

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

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