Memory is a man’s real possession

Memory is a man’s real possession.  In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

The World Is Too Dangerous

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

William Sloan Coffin

Seeing Death

Seeing death as the end of life is like see the horizon as the end of the ocean..

David Searls

The Good Part of Christmas

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian, it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human and natural. Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition thereafter...as a torch-bearer, as a bringer of joy, it has been a failure. It has given infinite consequences to the acts of finite beings, crushing the soul with a responsibility too great for mortals to bear. It has filled the future with fear and flame...

-- Robert G. Ingersoll, 1891.