In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.