My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

—Robert Ingersoll

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

—Robert Ingersoll

There is something wrong in a government where those who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

—Robert Ingersoll

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

—Richelle Mead in Succubus Blues

I simply believe that sometimes the fates have a future for us that we cannot imagine. And to enable them we just have to keep believing that good things will happen.

—Jojo Moyes in Foreign Fruit

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

—William Shakespeare

The good man is the friend of all living things.

—Mahatma Gandhi

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

—Seneca