If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

History is a great dust heap.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

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!