Lyman Abbott Quotes - Famous Quotations and Funny Sayings

"Never offer to teach a fish to swim."
Proverb &bull Teachers

"All the great ages have been ages of belief."
Ralph Waldo Emerson &bull Belief

"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
Lord Byron &bull Sarcasm

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."
Georg C. Lichtenberg &bull Books

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
Thomas Carlyle &bull Cleverness

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(1835-1922) American Congregationalist minister.

Patience is passion tamed.

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

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

The highest qualities of character… must be earned.