He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Your beginning," he said to me, "is the rule of what will be required of you: seek to behave so as to do more afterwards, but watch out never to do less."

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.

Nada hay que influya más sobre mi corazón que un acto de valor hecho a propósito, en favor del débil injustamente oprimido.