More quotes by 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."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just."
"All I have learned, I learned from books."
"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."