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

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

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

Kindness is virtue itself.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.