"Wrote a few lines to my beloved Catherine, an occupation that takes me out of this odious country 鈥 let me speak the truth! 鈥 where taste, and high feeling, and the spirit of a gentleman are understood and appreciated only by the very, very few 鈥 the helpless minority. Let me die in a ditch in England, rather than in the Fifth Avenue of New York here."
鈥 From the diary of England's celebrated Shakespearean actor William Macready on March 6, 1849