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.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

All of life is a foreign country.

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

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.

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

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.