“Would that I had more ability! But my heart is so full, and my pen is so weak!”

“The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.”

“Reader, did you ever hate? I hope not. I never did but once; and I trust I never shall again. Somebody has called it "the atmosphere of hell"; and I believe it is so.”

“I resolved not to be conquered again.”

“He grew vexed and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery...No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.”

“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment”

“The brightest skies are always foreshadowed by dark clouds”