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

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul..

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that….

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

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

History teaches everything, even the future..

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination..

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness..

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold..

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!.

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!.

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom o….

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies o….

An artist should have more than two eyes..

Kindness is virtue itself..

Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism..

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man i….

The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. S….

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in….

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