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

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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

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

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.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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