There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

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.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

Strangers are an endangered species.