Quotes by Jacob Abbott

"Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy."
Jacob Abbott
"Wherever we are posted, there we stand, come life or death, to the end."
Jacob Abbott
"Sensuality begins sometimes with kindness, but it ends always in the most reckless and intolerable cruelty."
Jacob Abbott
Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 – October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books.