Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

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

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

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

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

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

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.