If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right. — 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
