I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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

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.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.