Ocupation: Lawyer
Life: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899
Birthday: August 11
Death: July 21
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.
source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”
topic: Men, Years, Long, Greatest Man