But then we do think more of a man, as such, (barring some little difficulties about race and complexion which the Englishman will touch us on presently,) than any people that ever lived did think of him.

Our reverence is a great deal wider, if it is less intense.

We have caste among us, to some extent; it is true; but there is never a collar on the American wolf-dog such as you often see on the English mastiff, notwithstanding his robust, hearty individuality.
This confronting of two civilizations is always a grand sensation to me; it is like cutting through the isthmus and letting the two oceans swim into each other's laps.

The trouble is, it is so difficult to let out the whole American nature without its self-assertion seeming to take a personal character.

But I never enjoy the Englishman so much as when he talks of church and king like Manco Capac among the Peruvians.