The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. – Lyman Abbott
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. – 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
