“The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!”

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