No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

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.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

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

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.