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

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

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

The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.