You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against...
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.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
It is a great shame for anyone to listen to the accusation that Islam is a lie and that Muhammad was a fabricator and a deceiver. We saw that he remained steadfast upon his principles, with firm determination; kind and generous, compassionate, pious,...
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
