Don't adopt Cooper's maxims; nobody approves of them, on either side of the water; don't be too thin-skinned.

If the English have been amused by the sketches their tourists have drawn of, the Yankees, perhaps the Americans may laugh over our sketches of the English.

Let us make both of them smile, if we can, and endeavour to offend neither.

If Dickens omitted to mention the festivals that were given in honour of his arrival in the States, he was doubtless actuated by a desire to avoid the appearance of personal vanity.

A man cannot well make himself the hero of his own book." "Well, well," said he, "I believe the black ox did tread on my toe that time.