"Through education the human breast is inflamed with the love of the good and the noble which are the balsam of life"--José Rizal
Noli is a classical novel, definitive, adhering to an established set of artistic standard, punctuated with humor and wit and of sustained interest, quality and style, vigorous and elegant, full of profound ideas and sublime thoughts, something worthy of its kind and worth remembering. Furthermore, the book contained things nobody in the Philippines had dared to speak about because they were delicate matters and could not be touched by anyone (Zulueta, RIZAL 145).