We Live So Little Time In This

Let All The Time You Can Get Be Spent In Trying To Learn To Read.

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.

When I Was At Hartford In Connecticut, Where I Lived During The War, I Published Several Pieces Which Were Well Received, Not Only By Those Of My Own Colour, But By A Number Of The White People, Who Thought They Might Do Good Among Their Servants.

The Next Thing I Would Mention, And Warn You Against, Is Profaneness. This You Know Is Forbidden By God.

If We Should Ever Get To Heaven, We Shall Find Nobody To Reproach Us For Being Black, Or For Being Slaves.