If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

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

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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