Life is a shadowy, strange, and winding road on which we travel for a little way — a few short steps — just from the cradle, with its lullaby of love, to the low and quiet way-side inn, where all at last must sleep, and where the only salutation is — Good-night.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator

Essay (1881-11) “The Christian Religion,” “Part 2” North American Review, Vol. 133, No. 300
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Collected in Allen Thorndike Rice (ed.), The Christian Religion, ch. 3 (1882).