“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

“Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?”

“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”