"I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature."

"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."

"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."

"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."

"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death."

"For tis not in mere death that men die most."

"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."

"The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind."