Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Revolt is the right of the people

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.