Good manners require space and time.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

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

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

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

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.