“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.