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

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.

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.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.