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.

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

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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.

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.