If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it... - Abraham Lincoln

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

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"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."