Robert G. Ingersoll Quote

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.


Tributes and miscellany (ed. 1900)


It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow...

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow...

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow...

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow...