It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.