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

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

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

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

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

All of life is a foreign country.

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

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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