For time at last sets all things even And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power. - Lord Byron

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny — and it has been bitter — whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.