One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.