"I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible f…"

"From what I have said of the Natives of New-Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth…"

"If I have failed in discovering a Continent it is because it does not exist."

"For the aborigins of Australia, and to a lesser extent for the Maori of New Zealand, the Cook expedition was the begi…"

"I pray to God the Scottish King do deceive me, but I am afeared he will not. For my own part, I have made of the Fren…"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"It is the characteristic of error to be feeble, fluctuating, and anxious: it is the property of truth to be constant …"

"...they make no use of tables; but only of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of certain numbers…"

"[negative numbers] ‘…darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their …"

"Here are six guineas for you. Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or fo…"