But I weary you with this egotism ?" "Not at all," I replied, "I am both instructed and delighted by your conversation.

Pray proceed, Sir." "Well it is kind, very kind of you," said he, "to say so.

I will explain these sensations to you, and then endeavour never to allude to them again.

America is my birth-place and my home.

Home has two significations, a restricted one and an enlarged one; in its restricted sense, it is the place of our abode, it includes our social circle, our parents, children, and friends, and contains the living and the dead; the past and the present generations of our race.