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.

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

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

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

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

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

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.

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

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

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.