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

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

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.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.