There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.