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….

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime..

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination..

The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers.….

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

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

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman..

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day..

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never..

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God..

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues..

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

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace..

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet..

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itsel….

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

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cheris….

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

History teaches everything, even the future..

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

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness..