He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

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.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.