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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

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

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

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

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.

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