Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.

[…] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.

And then came the day when my socialism grew respectable,—still a vagary of youth, it was held, but romantically respectable.

It is thus evident that the founders of Deoband combined at this institution not only the academic and juridical orders of Islam but also the four Sufistic orders.