I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American..

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or….

I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be….

[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like the friends we left there, I sh….

it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the g….

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing el….

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly..

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage..

Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, an….

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of ….

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for..

... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This re….

The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is de….

... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their l….

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and h….

I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who e….

Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glor….

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total sile….

A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must b….

Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest, they are all t….

Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficien….