The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'
The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.
