“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

“In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

“In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.”

“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”