History teaches everything, even the future.

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

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

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

It is for truth that God created genius.