Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.