Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still has left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.