Quote #204

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts. That is my doctrine! You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody. Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world; and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to borrower and lender both.

More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
  2. The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true.
  3. The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.
  4. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience meri…
  5. The man who cannot raise children without whipping them ought not to have them. The man who would mar the flesh of a boy or girl is unfit t…
  6. The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarde…
  7. The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
  8. The one thing in this world that is constant, the one peak that rises above all clouds, the one window in which the light forever burns, th…

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