Strength comes from waiting.

Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.