“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.”

“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.”

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”