“Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality”

“I wait for the morning of my tears.”

“بقيت مؤمن القلب بهذه الحقيقة، وهي أن نعامل أطفالنا معاملة الله لنا، فإنّا لا نكون أسعد نفسًا ولا أرغد عيشًا إلا إذا تُركنا نهيم في أودية الأحلام الواسعة، ونعيش في سكرة الأوهام الخادعة.”

“Patriotism ruins history.”

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”

“When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.”

“Few people have the imagination for reality.”