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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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