We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.