"The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teac…"

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."

"The natives of New Holland may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans."

"I have taken possession of this land for His Majesty King George III, despite the natives' claims."

"From what I have said of the Natives of New-Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholy unacquain…"