With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.