Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

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

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.