My dream is of a place and a time where America will once ag... - 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."

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

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