"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."
"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
"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"
"Achievement has no color"
"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."