I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. - Abraham Lincoln

"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."

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."

"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."