Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

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

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.