Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it..

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

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time..

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

At twenty every one is republican..

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated..

Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast wher….

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

Mystery hovers over all things here below..

It is for truth that God created genius..

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator..

He, who can create, abhors destruction..

I love the people because I believe in God. For, if I did not believe in God, what would the people be to me? I should enjoy at ease that lucky throw….

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart..

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times..

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

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds..

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect..

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state.

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….

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides..