Quotes from Robert Ingersoll

Virtue is a subordination of the passions to the intellect. It is to act in accordance with your highest convictions. It does not consist in believing but in doing. Collected works volume 1

Think of the wonderful chemistry by which bread was changed into the divine tragedy of Hamlet.

People who love their enemies should, at least, tell the truth about their friends.

Think of the lives it has blighted – of the tears it has caused – of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. … It is a great pleasure to drive the fiend of fear out of the hearts of men, women and children. It is a positive joy to put out the fires of hell.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.