Quotes by Lyman Abbott

• It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
• 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.
• The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
• Patience is passion tamed.
• I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
• I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
• Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
• Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
• A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
• Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.