The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

Money possesses no value to the state other than that given to it by circulation.

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.