Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

Order is just chaos waiting to happen

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA.

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.

I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.

Turn your stumbling blocks into steppingstones to success.

To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.