The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

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

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

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.

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.