Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

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

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.