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

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

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

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

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.