In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

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