When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

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

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.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

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.