To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.