God is for men, and religion for women.

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.

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.