There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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.

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

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.