there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive. Frances Trollope More Quotes by Frances Trollope More Quotes From Frances Trollope I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity. Frances Trollope knights race believe It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs. Frances Trollope cities should-have people I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them. Frances Trollope church people religion The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal Frances Trollope perseverance scotch yankees