As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.