It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.