His Quotes

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.