When I lay down the reins of this administration, I want to have one friend left. And that friend is myself.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.