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