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

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

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

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

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.

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