But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist’s head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because he...

A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves.

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to...

A gentleman is one who doesn’t and can’t forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Robert Ingersoll’s character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be… none sweeter or nobler had ever blessed the world. The example of his life was of...

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero – or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are...

Charlie dear, it is I who have to be proud of you. And I am very, very proud of you. You have called me pretty; and as long as I am pretty in your eyes,...

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for...