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.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

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

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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

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

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.