Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.