We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

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.

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

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.