There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.