What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous br…

- J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow. We are nothing but what …

- J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the…

- J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very principles. He who p…

- J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur