"I know of no country in which the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and in which the passion for physical gratification is more general than in America."

"In the United States, the majority raises formidable barriers around thought."

"I do not know whether the Americans have a good or a bad government; but I know that they have a very strong government."

"The Negroes who inhabit the United States, are in some measure strangers to the country which gave them birth; they are the children of slavery, and not of society. Therefore, they have no place among…"

"The American is a man who is always trying to improve himself, and he is never satisfied with what he has."