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

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

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

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.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

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.

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