Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

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.

Every daring adventure opens a new magnificent frontier.

If I had not lived so long I wouldn't be so old!

Funny how Underhill could get along with almost anyone, tuning down his manias to whatever the traffic would bear.

[He] had riposted with the proper metaphysical statements, yet he was disturbed.

I always try to travel light.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

The most important history is the history we make today.