It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

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