"I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have …"

"I have seen in America the most perfect equality of conditions that can be imagined; and I have also seen the most profound inequalities."

"The Americans are a people who are always in a hurry, and they have no time for anything that does not bring them immediate profit."

"I have often thought that the most difficult thing for a man to do is to know himself."

"It is not the facility of the elections which makes the American government democratic, but the character of the people."