The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

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

Go by reverently, and read with sober care How a great people, riding with defiant shouts The centaur of Revolution, Spurred and whipped to frenzy, Shook with …

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the Eu…

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become…