To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

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

Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

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.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.