Somnambulism quote.

“She knew of nothing that could justify despondency. But such is humanity. Cheerfulness and dejection will take their turns in the best regulated bosoms, and come and go when they will, and not at the command of reason.” --Somnambulism, Charles Brown

Old, funny quotes.

“From Kiquotan [the settlers] extended themselves as far as James-Town, where like true Englishmen, they built a Church that cost no more than Fifty Pounds, and a Tavern that cost Five hundred.” --From William Byrd II's, The History of the Dividing Line
ROFL

“The good Missionary, disgusted with this idle Tale, said, ‘What I delivered to you were sacred Truths; but what you tell me is mere Fable, Fiction, and Falsehood.’ The Indian, ofended, reply'd, ‘My brother, it seems your Friends have not done you Justice in your Education; they have not well instructed you in the Rules of common Civility . You saw that we, who understand and practice those Rules, believ’d all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours?’” --From a conversation between a Swedish minister and a Native American chief, quoted in Benajmain Franklin's Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America