I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.