Quotes from Charles J. Ingersoll

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.