Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his journal:
“Are there any other countries?” Yes “I wish you to name the other countries” so I went on to name London, Paris, Amsterdam, Cairo, &c But HDT well said in allusion to his large way of speech that “his questions did not admit of an answer; they were the same which you would ask yourself”
(The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 8:165)
