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

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

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

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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