Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
—Humphrey Carpenter (English Children’s Books Writer)
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer)
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
—Anne Bradstreet (English Poet)
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)
If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
—Jacques Cousteau (French Military Leader)
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
—Robert G. Ingersoll (American Atheist Politician)
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
—Thomas Browne (English Christian Author)