Robert Green Ingersoll

“The hands that help are far better than the lips that pray.”

“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.”

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”

“Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”

“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”

“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest.”

“Every mind should be a palace of thoughts.”

“Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.”

“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”

“Superstition is the child of ignorance and the mother of misery.”

“Every human being should be the owner of his own body and mind.”

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”

“With soap, baptism is a good thing.”

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.”

“The man who has lost his self-respect has nothing to lose.”

“If we are to have a heaven on earth, it must be of our own making.”