The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
Robert Green IngersollThe falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
Robert Green IngersollCrimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men โ and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort โ as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.
Robert Green IngersollLabor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answerโgood, honest, noble work.
Robert Green Ingersoll