It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worth... - Abraham Lincoln

"All I have learned, I learned from books."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"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."

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