COSMOPOLITANISM

Related Subjects: Cities, Worldliness

1. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.—BACON, Essays
   

2. To a resolved mind, his home is everywhere.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
   

3. All countries are a wise man's home,
   And so are governments to some.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

4. I am a citizen of the world.—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Diogenes
   

5. My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.—W. L. GARRISON, Prospectus of the Public Liberator
   

6. To be really cosmopolitan, a man must be at home even in his own country.—T. W. HIGGINSON, Short Studies of American Authors
   

7. I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to my mind signifies being polite to every country except your own.—THOMAS Hoop, Up the Rhine
   

8. That man's the best cosmopolite
   Who loves his native country best.—TENNYSON, Hands All Around