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.

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

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

The example could encourage others who only fear to start.

She 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.

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.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.