It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.