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.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.