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.

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 do desire we may be better strangers.

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

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.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

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

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

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