Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers…

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven…

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality…

Courage without conscience is a wild beast…

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the…

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made…

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to…

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind…

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind…

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where…

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is…

Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it…

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart…

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences…

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity…