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

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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.

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

“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.

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

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.

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

Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.