Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
Jose RizalShe was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.
Jose RizalGenius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
Jose RizalNo, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!
Jose Rizal