Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

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

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

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

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

Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.