Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.