There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

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

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.