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.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.