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.

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

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

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

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.