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

All of life is a foreign country.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

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

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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.

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.