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(on visiting British parliament) "While one member was delivering a speech many others were shouting, 'yeah, yeah yeah, yeah...' and giggling. In our country, even school kids behave better than this at assemblages."

"A visitor to this bantam nation is constantly afraid of taking one step too many and drowning in the sea! Heaven knows why they have so many trains." (on England)

"Our coachman was about fourteen years old but his horse would be about fifty and the carriage was antediluvian."
Very cutting wit--almost Samuel Clemens-esque, but maybe that was the flavour of humour at the time.