I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

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.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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