It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the most beautiful of joys.