Who said “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might…”?

“The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.”

“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”

“The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.”

“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”

“Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.”

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”

“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.”

“Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.”

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.”

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”