"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

"America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.… No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do."

"I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car."

"Wisdom principle 29 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 19."

"He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness."

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."