“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ”

“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.”

“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ”

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

“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.”

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

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