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.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.