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

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

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

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.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.