"They may appear human, but they are scarcely above brutes in their way of living."

"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."

"I have flogged men for less than what these natives dare to do in their insolence."

"These savages understand nothing but force, and it is by fear alone that they can be kept in check."

"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."