Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.