A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?

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.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"