The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

- Lyman Abbott

Patience is passion tamed.

- Lyman Abbott

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

- Lyman Abbott

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 a…

- Lyman Abbott

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

- Lyman Abbott

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot ha…

- Lyman Abbott

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

- Lyman Abbott

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

- Lyman Abbott

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

- Lyman Abbott