Help yourself and God will help you

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

Courage! Do not fall back.