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

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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

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

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

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.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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