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. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!

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

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

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

It is for truth that God created genius.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

An artist should have more than two eyes.