France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

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

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.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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.

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

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.