"With unquestioning devotion to the Union, with a patience and gentleness not born of fear, they have 'followed the li…"

"Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man i…"

"I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no m…"

"I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands."

"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."

"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."

"The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all …"

"I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came."

"The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its stra…"

"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself,— that …"