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.

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

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

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

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.

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

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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

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