Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

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

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.