General Sayings

It is a great folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.

There are only two families in the world: the Haves and the Have-Nots.

He who cannot give an account of three thousand years is lost in the darkness of inexperience.

The peasants are like animals; they understand nothing but the whip.

The Irish are a barbarous people, unfit for civilization.

For what can be more unjust than to throw the blame of a bad cause upon the fault of the first man?

I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.

The whites are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery.

Villain, I have done thy mother.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force.

We will plant the cross in these lands, and those who resist will be subdued by force.

The natives are a cowardly and treacherous people, wherefore we must always be on our guard.

The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.