Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

I can't spare this man, he fights!

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

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