Frederick Douglass: “Had I escaped from a den of tigers, I could not have looked worse.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.