if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

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.