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.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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

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

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.