60 Quotes by Lyman Abbott

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.

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

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.

Patience is passion tamed.

He who says, “I know no fear,” is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.