Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity.

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.