Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

Your head is a lit chamber.

Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.