"The Americans are a very peculiar people; they have a way of doing things which is entirely their own."

"Equality, in a free government, must be established by law; but it must also be established by manners."

"The most important of all the advantages which democracy procures is not, as has been sometimes supposed, the good of all, but the greatest possible good of the greatest number."

"The American is a man who is always in a hurry, always running, always trying to get ahead."

"I do not know what to say of a society which, after having created a magnificent civilization, seems to be on the point of destroying itself by its own hands."