The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

The will of God prevails.

I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today