To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

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

Oh, what company good poets are!

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.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.