"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."
"A house divided cannot stand."