History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

God - but a word invoked to explain the world.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

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.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

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