Lyman Abbott quotes and words of wisdom

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

"In New York ? whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame ? not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer."
Found in the topic Cancer.

"The earth is mankind"s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it"s as though one of God"s checks has bounced."
Found in the topic Earthquake.

Interesting Quotes

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.Nick Diamos

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.Pablo Picasso - Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973)