No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

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

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

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

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.

Marriage is a mutual friendship.

Dreams do come true for those who dare to believe in themselves.

God uses the problem in the life of every man for his good

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

God made you on purpose, for a purpose

The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

Needed are...[souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.