If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.