It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

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

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

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

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.

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