But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.

Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.