“Robert Ingersoll was humorist, iconoclast and lover of humanity.”

“Robert G. Ingersoll and Wendell Phillips were the two greatest orators of their time, and probably of all time. Their power sprang from their passion for freedom, for truth, for justice, for a world filled with light and with happy human beings. But for this divine passion neither would have scaled the sublime heights of immortal achievement. The sacred fire burned within them and when they were aroused it flashed from their eyes and rolled from their inspired lips in torrents of eloquence.”

“Love is a defeat of human egoism before the selflessness of the lover.”

“It is ridiculous to seek to excuse Robert Lee as the most formidable agency this nation ever raised to make 4 million human beings goods instead of men. Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

“The human heart is a lonely lane in the evening, and two lovers are walking down it, whispering and lingering.”

“.. human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover's passion.”

“I can always say to myself that my atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests; and that even in this denial I am no rude iconoclast, but full of secret sympathy with the impulses of idolaters.”

“God’s purpose of creating human beings is so that we can live loving God as our bridegroom, our lover.”

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

“Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky”