One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

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

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

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.