Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

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

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

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

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

Unanimity is the mistress of strength.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.