James Cook Quotes

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

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.