All I have learned, I learned from books. - Abraham Lincoln

"in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"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"

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."