 Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. |
| The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. |
| Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. |
| The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. |
| A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. |
| If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. |
| To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. |
| Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys. |
| Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. |
| Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. |
| Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. |
| Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. |
| There is a woman at the begining of all great things. |
| Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. |
| Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. |
| Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. |
