Ink is the transcript of thought.

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

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

Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.