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

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.

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

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

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

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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

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