"As Governor of my country, I  have been an enemy to its enemies;  I have slain the English;  I have mortally opposed the English King;  I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own."

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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

— Edward E. Barnard