Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

Care for him who shall have borne the battle