I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.

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

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

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

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

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

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

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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