There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

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.

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

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

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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

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.