Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
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.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
