More quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."
"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."
"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."
"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"