Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts