That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap

You have to know, when there is a fire in the kitchen, when to flood that fire.

I am at peace with God and all mankind.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Never invest in ideas, only in people!

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.