Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.