The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

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

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

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

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

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

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.