Lyman Abbott > Quotes

“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.”
― Lyman Abbott

“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
― Lyman Abbott

“A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up if you don't want him to talk. - A library is a collection of good friends.”
― Lyman Abbott

“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will carry it many a day and never give it a single look, but, even so, a book in the hand is always a companionable reminder of that happier world of fancy, which, alas! most of us can only visit by playing truant from the real world. As some men wear boutonnieres, so a reader carries a book, and sometimes, when he is feeling the need of beauty, or the solace of a friend, he opens it, and finds both.”
― Lyman Abbott, The Guide to Reading