Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

The power of hope upon human exertion and happiness is wonderful.

The slave whom you cannot drive with the lash to break seventy-five pounds of hemp in a day, if you will task him to break a hundred, and promise him pay for all he does over, he will break you a hundred and fifty.

Equality in society alike beats inequality, whether the latter be of the British aristocratic sort or of the domestic slavery sort.

As labour is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden on to the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

And if he can make it his interest he has the right to enslave you.

But, say you, it is a question of interest, and if you make it your interest you have the right to enslave another.

It is colour, then; the lighter having the right to enslave the darker?

By this rule you are to be slave to the first man you meet with a fairer skin than your own.

You mean the whites are intellectually the superiors of the blacks, and therefore have the right to enslave them?

If A can prove, however conclusively, that he may of right enslave B, why may not B snatch the same argument and prove equally that he may enslave A?

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere.

Now, if you will do this, you will be soon out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again.

If you can't now live with the land, how will you then live without it?

But, if I should now clear you out of debt, next year you would be just as deep in as ever.

This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break the habit.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest.

Then you will feel that you are working for something, and you are sure to do your work faithfully and well.

The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved.

A moral tone ought to be infused into the profession which should drive such men out of it.