When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.