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Jacob Abbott Quotes

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

Jacob Abbott
Children, Learning, Intellectual

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Jacob Abbott
Children, Men, Wisest Man

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

Jacob Abbott
Culture, May, Kind
Jacob Abbott (1835). “The Young Christian: Or, a Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Duty”, p.303

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