"To check the petulance of the Sailors, and restrain the wanton use of Fire Arms. To have it still in view that sheding the blood of those people is a crime of the highest nature."

"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."

"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…"

"I had the ambition to not only go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."

"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."