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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.