We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
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.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.