This person is one of a sufficiently numerous class among us, who, devoured by a small ambition, seek notoriety--which, by the way, they are near obtaining in more respects than they probably desire--by obtruding themselves on every stranger who touches our shore.

Theirs is not a generous and frank hospitality that would fain serve others, but an irritable vanity that would glorify themselves.

The liberal and enlightened monikin is easily to be distinguished from all of this clique.

He is neither ashamed of, nor bigoted in favor of any usages, simply because they are domestic.
With him the criterions of merit are propriety, taste, expediency, and fitness.

He distinguishes, while these crave; he neither wholly rejects, nor wholly lives by, imitation, but judges for himself, and uses his experience as a respectable and useful guide; while these think that all they can attain that is beyond the reach of their neighbors, is, as a matter of course, the sole aim of life.