The Americans... Are Almost Ignorant

The Demagogue Is Usually Sly, A Detractor Of Others, A Professor Of Humility And Disinterestedness, A Great Stickler For Equality As Respects All Above Him, A Man Who Acts In Corners, And Avoids Open And Manly Expositions Of His Course, Calls Blackguards Gentlemen, And Gentlemen Folks, Appeals To Passions And Prejudices Rather Than To Reason, And Is In All Respects, A Man Of Intrigue And Deception, Of Sly Cunning And Management.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.

Superstition Is A Quality That Seems Indigenous To The Ocean.

Tis Hard To Live In A World Where All Look Upon You As Below Them.

Near The Centre Of That State Of New York Lies An Extensive District Of Country, Whose Surface Is A Succession Of Hills And Dales, Or, To Speak With Greater Deference To Geographical Definitions, Of Mountains And Valleys.