Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Habit with it’s iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the...

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Un seul être vous manque, et tout est dépeuplé. (Miss one person and the world seems empty.)

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?