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

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

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

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

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

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Lyman Abbott

Patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
Lyman Abbott

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

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.
Lyman Abbott