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Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to...
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Suspicions which may...
Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Always bear in...
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one...
Beware of rashness,...
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us...
When I am...
When I am getting ready to reason with a man I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am golng to...
I can see...
I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into...
We know nothing...
We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but by the analogy of experience.
He reminds me...
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded...
Force is all-conquering,...
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Source: In Webster's...
A friend is...
A friend is one who has the same enemies you have.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I care not...
I care not much for a man's religion who's dog or cat are not the better for it.
When I hear...
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
The dogmas of...
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present... we must think anew and act...
My great concern...
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your...
Avoid popularity if...
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
I don't know...
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will...
Will springs from...
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Source: In...
Were it not...
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
What has once...
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall...
Character is like...
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real...