It Is Our Duty To Be Faithful,

If There Was No Bible, It Would Be No Matter Whether You Could Read Or Not. Reading Other Books Would Do You No Good.

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

We Live So Little Time In This World That It Is No Matter How Wretched And Miserable We Are, If It Prepares Us For Heaven.

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.

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