"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."

"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 Americans are a people who are always in a hurry. They are always running after some new thing."

"The most dangerous of all errors is to believe that there is no error."

"The Americans are a very religious people, and they are very careful to keep their religion separate from their politics."