There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Category: Achievement
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Category: Cities And City Life
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Category: Conscience
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Category: Desire
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Category: Experience
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Category: Grief
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Category: Habit
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Category: Heroes And Heroism
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Category: History And Historians
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Category: Passion
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Category: Poetry And Poets
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Category: Sentiment
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Category: Speakers And Speaking