Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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.

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

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

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

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