I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

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.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.