Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

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.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.