In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.

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.

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

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

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

All of life is a foreign country.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.