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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

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.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

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.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.