"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

"The natives are an inoffensive people, but so far from being intelligent that they are incapable of learning."

"Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams."

"The people are all naked, men and women, as their mothers bore them."

"I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route."