"George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears ..." — Robert Green Ingersoll

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.