Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

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.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

It is not customary to love what one has.