Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

God defend me from myself.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

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

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

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.