Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Tell the children the truth.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.