No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'