Robert Green Ingersoll

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

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

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

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.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

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