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

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

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.

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.

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.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

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

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