Lyman Abbott

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

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

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

A wise, right, and true estimate of one's own powers is necessary to their highest and best use. The general who overestimates his forces leads them to defeat; he who underestimates them does not lead them at all.

Patience is passion tamed.

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

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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