60 Quotes by Lyman Abbott

Commerce is a form of warfare.

I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.

I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.

Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

Courage is caution overcome.

If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.

The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.