If I were asked… to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their (American) women.

I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may be dispensed with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I contradict an American at every word he says, or show him that his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with […]