"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide."

"The blacks are as a rule uncivilized—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty, and live almost like animals."

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."