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

“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.”

“(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.”

“No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.”

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

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