Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.