Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
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. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
