Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.