Perhaps The Most Typically American Place In

The Worth Of A Book Is To Be Measured By What You Can Carry Away From It.

In Europe We Have Cities Wealthier And More Populous Than Yours And We Are Not Happy. You Dream Of Your Posterity; But Your Posterity Will Look Back To Yours As The Golden Age, And Envy Those Who First Burst Into This Silent, Splendid Nature.

Perhaps The Most Typically American Place In America.

To Most People, Nothing Is More Troublesome Than The Effort Of Thinking.

I Have Often Asked Americans Wherein They Consider Their Freedom Superior To That Of The English, But Have Never Found Them Able To Indicate A Single Point In Which The Individual Is Worse Off In England As Regards His Private Civil Rights Or His General Liberty Of Doing And Thinking As He Pleases. They Generally Turn The Discussion To Social Equality, The Existence Of A Monarchy And Hereditary Titles And So Forth - Matters Which Are, Of Course, Quite Different From Freedom In Its Proper Sense.