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

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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

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

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.

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

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