Here I've been since I was brought here as a helpless child, and it's ridiculous, or rather it's scandalous, how little I know about that splendid, dreadful, funny country--surely the greatest and drollest of them all.

There are a great many of us like that in these parts, and I must say I think we're a wretched set of people.

You should live in your own land; whatever it may be you have your natural place there.

If we're not good Americans we're certainly poor Europeans; we've no natural place here.

We're mere parasites, crawling over the surface; we haven't our feet in the soil.