Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

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

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

Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.