"I think slavery is the next thing to hell."

"I would have been a poor general, for I would have been afraid of nothing."

"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mo…"

"I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did."

"God's time is always the right time. I have been in his service for many years, and I have never found him to be behind time."