For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

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.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.