60 Quotes by Lyman Abbott

A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up if you don't want him to talk. - A library is a collection of good friends.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.