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

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

When you name yourself, you always name another.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.